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Day 3: "You know where you did despise" by Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

You know where you did despise
(Tother day) my little Eyes,
Little Legs, and little Thighs,
And some things, of little Size,
You know where.

You, tis true, have fine black eyes,
Taper legs, and tempting Thighs,
Yet what more than all we prize
Is a Thing of little Size,
You know where.

>> No.12383363

Really good I love these threads

>> No.12383438

>>12382382
is this about penis and vagina?

>> No.12383448

>>12383438
My first thought was fat people, but penis and vagina makes more sense.

>> No.12383462

Two pope poems in a row?

>> No.12383478

>>12383448
How in the hell did you think of fat people.

>>12383438
I assume he is specifically talking about the clitoris, but I'm not so sure

>> No.12383482

it's about pige

>Taper legs
confirmed

>> No.12383488

>>12383462
I fear - and I hope to God I'm wrong - that the Pope-poster has hijacked this poem-a-day idea.

>> No.12383501

>>12383488
OP from the first thread. Hijacking is not the word I'd use. I'm glad this board is discussing literature for once. If each following poem is Pope however Id say we've been memed.

>> No.12383663

>Pope admits in his letter to Cromwell that he thinks of himself as "the Least Thing like a Man in England," partly thanks to the humiliating jesting of a lady recently about his small size. He continues: "some days after, to be reveng'd on her, I presented her amongst other Company the following Rondeau on that occasion ..." (89-90). This is the best evidence of his authorship of the waspish piece, which is accepted as genuine in Minor Poems, ed. Norman Ault and John Butt (London: Methuen, 1954): 61 (PR 3621 B82 Robarts Library).
pope got a small dong

>> No.12383674

>>12383663
He was 4'11"

>> No.12383688

>>12383674
*4'6

>> No.12383689

>>12383478
I'm shit at interpreting poems

>> No.12383726

>>12383688
4'2"*

>> No.12383740

>>12383663
When will they learn?

>> No.12383822

>>12382382
is this poem about a man talking about how he is short and how he has a small dick while telling a woman how beautiful she is but admitting he doesnt have a chance because he is smol?
I'm not very good at this... p-please no bully

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12383873

>>12382382
>Brackets in a Poem

>> No.12383980

>>12383501
Wait so which threads did you create?

>> No.12384127

>>12383980
All of them so far

>> No.12384141

>>12382382
Ok Pope seriously what the fuck did you mean by this? getting major rejected incel vibes from this

>>12384127
can I make a recommendation for Keats's Human Seasons or some Byron next?

>> No.12384174

>>12384127
I think it's worth creating a trip for these threads btw. Aslong as you don't use it outside the thread or even in the thread unless it's needed it'd be fine

>> No.12384282

>>12384174
Alright I'll use this one
>>12384141
Good choices I'll use one